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Marvel StudiosWhile The Marvels may have flamed out at the box office, praise has been nearly universal for the second season of Marvel Studios Loki, which just wrapped up on Disney+. Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan joined the cast this season as Ouroboros, or O.B., the quirky tech genius behind the scenes of the Time Variance Authority. But he tells Variety he saw the character as a callback to one he was known for when he was a child actor. Quan explains, "In th...

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Delivering on long-awaited improvements, the Department of Education will soon release a streamlined version of its widely used college financial aid form, known as the FAFSA, to less than 20 questions that could take some people just 10 minutes to fill out, officials told ABC News. The new Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which was reviewed exclusively by ABC News ahead of its launch date, will go live by Dec. 31, according to the Department of E...

Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Taking semaglutide, the active ingredient in drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic used for weight loss, can help boost heart health in people without diabetes, according to new research. In a study of over 17,000 people, semaglutide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist medication, was found to lower the risk of cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes by 20% in people who have pre-existing cardiovascular disease and who are overwei...

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images, FILE(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- Production workers across two Ford plants in Louisville, Kentucky, voted against a tentative agreement that ended a weekslong strike, a local chapter of the United Auto Workers said on Facebook late Sunday night. By contrast, skilled trade workers at the two plants voted in favor of the agreement, leaving the members of UAW Local 862 split on the deal depending on their respective jobs. Neither UAW Local 862 nor Ford immediately responded to A...

Andrew Milligan - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- Maryanne Trump Barry, the older sister of former President Donald Trump and a former federal judge, has died, according to sources. She was 86 years old. She was discovered in her Fifth Avenue apartment at about 4 a.m., sources told ABC News. There were no signs of trauma or foul play. Emergency crews responded to a call of a person in cardiac arrest, the sources said. A spokesman for former President Trump declined to com...

David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Commuters in Los Angeles are bracing for an all-day traffic nightmare after one of the nations busiest freeways was shut down indefinitely by a massive fire that erupted over the weekend in a storage yard underneath the normally congested artery. The 10 Freeway, traversed by more than 300,000 drivers daily, remained closed in both directions as authorities suggested a series of detours and announced there is no t...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A Texas man who is currently on trial in Russia over child abuse allegations plans to take the stand in his own defense. David Barnes, who has been detained in Moscow for nearly two years, is expected to testify in front of the judge who will decide his fate at the conclusion of the bench trial. He is slated to be called to the stand after his defense team wraps up their presentation of evidence, though an exact date has not yet been determined since the trial is not occurr...

ABCBrad Pitt is apparently official with Ines de Ramon, whom People reports hes calling his "girlfriend." The 59-year-old Oscar-winning actor and producer has been dating the jewelry designer, 33, for a year now, according to sources quoted by the magazine, and they were recently spotted together being "super loving" at LACMAs Art+Film Gala in Los Angeles. "He introduces [Ramon] as his girlfriend," the source explains. The pair were first spotted out together at a B...

Marvel StudiosThe Marvels, the sequel to 2019s Captain Marvel, failed to go higher, faster, further, earning an estimated $47 million at the domestic box office -- nearly $100 million less than its predecessor and a franchise low for the MCU. The film, directed by Candyman helmer Nia DaCosta, the first Black woman to helm an MCU film, added an estimated $63.3 million internationally, for a global total of $110.3 million. Five Nights at Freddys dropped to second place, scaring up an estimated ...

Stocktrek Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- American aircraft on Sunday struck a weapons storage facility and a command-and-control center used by Iran-linked militants in Syria in the latest round of retaliatory strikes amid continued attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East, officials said. "Within the last two hours, the U.S. has taken precision defensive strikes against two sites in Syria," one official told ABC News. The operation was in response to what the Pentagon has called on...